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Is anyone's Airtel horrible this morning?

Hullabaloon:
Ok. Update. It works. Thanks to akinremedy who have me the step by step.

Buy the attached, then get an Ethernet cable and use it to run the connection

Cc: Him2025

Keky:
Use VPN to stream.

What Vpn do you use?

Gshems:
Please who know how I can connect my airtel smart tv box to use my odu network

Check page 31 of this thread.

Page 31, 3rd post

NSEstudent:
It works on X25 and some more portable routers (MIFIs). However, to work on mifi, you'd need to tweak it and some people do it for a fee.

Can you point me to those that can?

NSEstudent:
You said it's the new one... Check underneath for the sim slot. Use the picture he posted as a guide. I will equally be interested in seeing it as well.

Advantage of physical sim is so you can take the Sim to another more portable device when moving instead of subbing two devices. Economics.

Converted to physical Sim yesterday and it doesn't work in my phone or MiFi. Only works in the router and my useless Smartbox router.

Abeg those that switched from E-sim to physical Sim How long did it take to start working?

mrboluu:
I don reboot my ODU like 5 times yet the network still dey struggle to even open nairaland

Omo, thank God I came online to see this. I just returned from Airtel office where I went to swap from E-sim to physical Sim. Only to come back and my router wouldn't even Open nairaland. I instantly concluded it's a faulty Sim swap. Was about to drive back to their office before coming here to see I'm not alone

CuteMaro:
Try changing the location of the ODU. Check the signal strength while doing that. I helped a friend out who had same opinion as you, and now it is the best thing in the world lol.

It's like this location of a thing doesn't work as I thought. E dey fluctuate die. Look at mine. Same direction I faced it. 4 different results on different days.

Where do I find screw that will open This?

NSEstudent:
Not sure if the IDU ports are rated 48V, which the ODU requires. Accommodating the ODU has been my concern for what you want to do.

Osyxcel gave a workable scenario. You can buy PoE adapter from Chinese retail stores for that purpose. And then buy the peripherals you can use to make the 10000mAh power bank usable.

If you ask me, there is no point doing these, especially since you said you have inverter at home. If you need a portable power bank, the UPS with the cables you will buy, will be cumbersome and will defeat the purpose. So you'd be better off buying a normal power bank.

Oh, the thing is 10000 mah? Not worth the hassle.

Thank you everyone for your input.

NSEstudent:
I think you are right about the bolded. Even right now, it's not yet clear to me.

I will answer some.

Yes, you can definitely bypass the UPS and connect the IDU to light using a suitably spec'd adapter. I have done this. But I instead chose to power them all from the UPS.

The above is about the only part I understand. You said you use the ZTE, I use it too. I have not tried connecting the ODU directly to the IDU. The ODU has to be connected to the UPS. This is why I said the UPS (or the PoE) is not just a mere power bank. I don't see where you mentioned how you are going to power the ODU. You only mentioned the IDU here. So if you bypass the UPS and plug the IDU to power by other means, how would you power the ODU? The UPS is the connecting point between the ODU and the IDU. One of the major things it does is to provide power to the power hungry ODU.

If you somehow power the ODU and IDU by other means and have the UPS unused, you will have to look for cables that can convert the output from the UPS to USB. Also, most phones use 5V. The UPS is 12V out. So you will also need to do something about that.

For powering the ODU, can't I just plug it at one of the Ethernet ports at the back of the IDU?

NSEstudent:
The UPS is not just a power bank. I am talking only in the case of the ZTE sha. I don't think you can replace it with anything else. I mean, we have seen that it needs 48V via the LAN cable. How can you replicate that with a power bank?

I am not sure you understand what I am talking about. Can I bypass the UPS and plug the IDU directly to light since I have 24/7 power. (I use the ZTE)

And if yes, it means I now have a UPS I don't use. So second question is. Can I somehow use the UPS as a power bank to charge my phones. Though I think that's very unlikely given it doesn't have any USB ports. But then in the world of tech, almost anything is possible.

House, I have a question. I have inverter in my house, hence, light never goes off. So, do I still need to be using the router with the power bank or can I just connect everything directly to the IDU?

2. If I can bypass the power bank and connect directly to the IDU, is there a way to convert the power bank to personal use like charging phone. I know it doesn't have any USB ports but is their any sort of magic one can do? Maybe a USB Port to Ethernet converter exists somewhere. Something like that...

NSEstudent:
Downloaded on TV. It says I have VIP for 3 days. Which means I might need to pay after that.

Mine didn't show me anything like that

NSEstudent:
Is it on Play Store? Or do you mean Yacine app, the one with mostly Arabic channels?

Nope. Not yacine. And it's not on play store. Google it

Gshems:
speedtest is always good. Downloading is great too. But the issue is streaming.

You are correct. Never had a problem with downloading. If it's a very heavy file, I'll just do it overnight. But streaming was a major problem, especially live matches. All the apps I have, them Cricfy, Sportzx, and HDstreamz, would only stream without buffering if set to the lowest piss poor quality and buffer heavily on decent quality. Probably an issue with the sever on those apps.

Till I discovered this YouCine app. Has all the major super sports channels and the resolution is 480p which looks very decent on my 65 inches. Absolutely zero buffering on that resolution. Finally my streaming worries are over. You can give it a try.

Burgerstv23:
What's your speed?

here you have it

Funny how just changing the direction the ODU is facing can take it from poor to Great

Same balcony, just different direction.

NSEstudent:
It might just be your location, the stability part.

It's absolutely his location.

I subbed my ODU this morning and so far I've been getting a sign into network.

Segun2222:
come and test test my streaming service free for 24 hours

What?

nurez305:
what most people don't understand is that, it is not about how fast your internet is, for you to stream higher quality videos but how well the streaming platform server. I stream YouTube 1080p without buffering with just 5mbps, same 5mbps might not be about to stream a video of 480p on another platform with poor server.

With anything from 20mbps, it is enough to stream without buffering on any good platform. Samething apply to iptv.

Yes the 25k subscription is all you need except Airtel is very bad in your area and you can't get up to 5mbps.

There are some platform that 1gbps will still buffer every few seconds

You are very correct. I was getting 60mbps on mtn yesterday normal data, yet I couldn't stream premier league match at decent quality without it buffering. Tried another app and it was streaming well on HD resolution but no English commentary. Frustration wan kill me.

Thankfully nepa brought light and I switched to DSTV

Gshems:
Videos has never buffered since I got this ODU. I stream on 1080p.

Bless God for your location

NSEstudent:
3G is trying tonight.

I'll be renewing again soon cos I took a one month break. @pheranme9, what's the advantage of subbing with your services?

NSEstudent:
Is there any cell other than 491 on this band 7?

I have noticed what someone said here is true. All bands perform abysmally at night. Maybe it's my location but that's irritating and totally frustrating.

Interestingly, switching the router to 3G only, although reading very low on speed tests, appears to at least be usable for streams.

Are you saying if I switch to 3g, I can Stream on HD without buffering at night?

Osimhen is too temperamental. You shouldn't lash out at your teammates in that manner while the world is watching when you are not the manager

Why are panel beaters telling me I have to repaint the entire front bumper if I want to fix this scratch? Is there no way to fix and repaint only the affected part?

Cc: Abbeyismo, 9icetoo

Heard commentator mention extra time of it remains a draw. Does it mean there's no

second leg?

Gshems:
proton

Abeg which country you select? I put mine on best server but no noticeable difference

Unfaized:
Who has any ideas about Airtel tv box and how to use with this Odu

Go to page 31 of this thread. I shared how I did mine

Gshems:
On my devices

Which VPN are you using?